Month: September 2015

Sep 30 2015

Medical Dispatches

The 5-year deferral period – a vestige of the past

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Maxime Billick, Jeremy Cygler, Gabriel Devlin and Bellal Jubran are all third year medical students at McGill University   We are four fresh and eager medical students just beginning clerkship,...

Sep 30 2015

Editors' Blog

Sunshine, research and waste at the 2015 REWARD/EQUATOR Conference

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Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. She’s currently attending the Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.   Edinburgh...

Sep 30 2015

Student Humanities Blog

When Words Fail

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Beatrice Preti McMaster University Class of 2017           The curtains were drawn, I walked into the room, Looked at the lady, and said, “How do you...

Sep 29 2015

Reflections

Modern Medicine: let’s return to reason

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Nikhil Joshi is a Fellow in Clinical Immunology at the University of Manitoba. He wrote a blog for CBC about his experience with cancer I was reading about Allergic Bronchopulmonary...

Sep 28 2015

Editors' Blog

Peer reviewers – we couldn’t do without you

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Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK   Monday 28 September to Friday 2 October is “Peer Review Week“.* This...

Sep 25 2015

Reflections

Remembering Doctors Sacks and Sackett: Two different legacies leave a path to better care

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Dr. Joshua Tepper is a family physician and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Health Quality Ontario, the provincial adviser on health care quality Written with Alanna Glassman, writer...

Sep 16 2015

Editors' Blog

Election 2015: Health care issues that should be top of mind

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by Barbara Sibbald, Editor, News and Humanities, CMAJ For the past 30 years, in poll after poll with only one exception, Canadians have declared that health care is the most important...

Sep 12 2015

Student Humanities Blog

Gulliver

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Chien-Shun Chen University of Toronto Class of 2016 Gulliver’s Travels, a familiar story from many of our childhoods, lends itself to highlight the significance of cultural psychiatry. Do we –...

Sep 10 2015

Reflections

Good health requires environmental security

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Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy   Security has emerged as an important issue in the...

Sep 08 2015

Patients' blog, Peggy Cumming

My Best Life

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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher – retired after 34 years in the classroom – and an...